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While Eagleton and the three Congressmen have championed the cause, the pressure has been generated by a complex of Greek-American organizations. Most effective has been the American Hellenic Institute, founded last summer. The institute has a full-time lobbyist in Washington and is headed by Eugene Telemachus Rossides, a former Nixon-appointed Treasury Department official and a well-connected Republican attorney (he is a law partner of former Secretary of State William Rogers). Son of a Greek mother and Greek-Cypriot father, Rossides argues that the Cyprus crisis "exposed the myth of Kissinger's competence as a negotiator...
...long-established Greek-American institutions have provided vital grass-roots support, stimulating the mail campaigns. One is the Greek Orthodox Church, headed in the U.S. by Archbishop lakovos, who set up 50 state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about...
Maro Seferis said in an announcement given to the Greek press in Athens that she expects financial support for the chair, which has not yet been funded, from the Greek-American community and from international literary figures...
...committee to raise funds for the chair is being organized by Anagnostopoulos, who said that naming the chair after a respected Greek figure would draw support from Greek-American who had not previously shown an interest in funding the chair...
...radical students' stance is not ignored. Some more conservative Greeks are put off by the "totalitarian radical" nature of the association, ever since Harvard progressives wrested control of the association from less-activist MIT leadership nearly two years ago. And Greek-American radio stations and communities in the area do not like to entertain the association's opinions...